The Austria country focus of the 2025 Glasgow Film Festival showcases mostly fiction features and comes after a strong showing for Austrian films at the Berlinale. But Christoph Schwarz’s Piggy Bank, which gets its U.K. premiere at Glasgow on Monday, takes a very different approach, mixing mockumentary and self-experiment in a way that has become the filmmaker’s signature style throughout his shorts, videos, and other creative works.
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